In Intro to Film courses, Citizen Kane (1941) and His Girl Friday   (1940) typically play major roles in the teaching of film-analysis. H...

Not every film has an implicit Thoreau signature reflective of the nineteenth-century Romantic turn from the age of Reason. Not every film b...

The 2026 film, I Want Your Sex , is ostensibly about sex, for the film is saturated with that leitmotif, but the narrative is actually a cri...

As the protagonists in the film, Iván & Hadoum (2026), neither Iván nor Hadoum, who fall in love, are heterosexuals even though by all ...

Can meaning be extracted merely from living out an ordinary life in an ordinary town? Must a person be among the literary, political, entert...

The film, The Reader (2008), captures a frame of mind that may be so frequently overlooked when it is observed because it is so bizarre in ...

Challenging the dichotomy between reading a book and watching a movie, a film can include writing lessons within a narrative that is oriente...

In line with the films, The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), Passengers (2008) centers on the (hypothetical) question of whether...

A film narrative oriented to an investigation of Christianity is tailor-made to illustrate the potential of film as a medium to convey abst...

Although dramatic tension is a crucial element of a narrative, the main point is not necessarily in the resolution of the tension. Dramat...

For anyone interested in filmmaking, a film that features the internal operations of a film studio—especially one during the “Golden Age”...

I think perhaps the title of the film,  Silence  (2016) ought to have been “The last Priest” because the main character, Rodrigues, is the ...

The film,  Boy Erased  (2018), is a drama that deals in a serious  way with the question of whether homosexuality is a choice, and thus w...

Sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) centers most of the dramatic tension on the...

Taking a story from a television series to a movie can present hurdles for screenwriters and directors, especially if they do not fully a...

In writing posts on a blog, is a blogger alienated, or estranged, from his or her own labor and the product (i.e., the posts)? If not, woul...

On the surface,  Milton's Secret  (2016) is a story about a financially-stressed family getting a visit from grandpa, who brings someth...

In an interview on the film, Forsaken (2015), Kiefer Sutherland remarks that the film is black and white in terms of the bad and the good ...

By  the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the impact of computer technology on television was already promising to be no...

A closeted gay student at an evangelical seminary is a contrast with a rather obvious clashing point, with the predicted ending being that ...